The consumer price index (CPI), a main gauge of inflation, rose 5.4 percent year on year in January in Jiangsu Province, 0.7 percentage points higher than in December, according to the Jiangsu team of the National Bureau of Statistics.

In January, the CPI climbed 5.1 percent and 6.3 percent in Jiangsu’s urban and rural areas, respectively.

The hikes were mainly drive by prices of food, tobacco and liquor, which soared 14.7 percent year on year last month, contributing 4.13 percentage points to the increase.

Pork prices rose 110.0 percent year on year, contributing 2.45 percentage points to the CPI growth.

Non-food prices gained 1.7 percent last month. The prices of consumer goods went up by 7.8 percent, and that of services grew by 1.6 percent.

Prices in the other seven categories were all up year on year in January. The prices of clothing, housing, daily goods and services, transportation and communications, education, culture and entertainment, health care, and other goods and services rose by 1.9, 1.2, 1.4, 2.0, 2.6, 0.1 and 5.5 percent, respectively.

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